CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? North Carolina has hired Tulsa athletic director Bubba Cunningham as the school's next AD.
University trustees approved the hiring in a meeting Friday morning. Cunningham's start date is Nov. 14 and his contract runs through June 2017. He will make $525,000 annually and will receive a $40,000 annual expense allowance. He can receive bonuses for average team academic performance, as well as when the football team reaches a bowl or the men's and women's basketball teams reach the NCAA tournament.
Cunningham will replace Dick Baddour, who is stepping down after 14 years amid the ongoing NCAA investigation into the football program. Chancellor Holden Thorp, who attended the trustees meeting, had said Baddour would remain on at least through the school's appearance before the NCAA infractions committee on Oct. 28.
The school had scheduled a news conference at the Smith Center to introduce Cunningham for shortly after the trustees meeting. The school said the contract agreement isn't final until all parties have signed it.
Cunningham was atop a short list of candidates forwarded to Thorp by a 13-member search committee headed by trustee Lowry Caudill. He'll inherit a 28-sport department that stands as one of the flagship programs in the Atlantic Coast Conference. He'll have the immediate job in hiring a new football coach after the abrupt firing of Butch Davis just before training camp in July, including the decision of whether interim coach Everett Withers ? who has the Tar Heels off to a 5-1 start ? should be the permanent choice.
Since Cunningham's arrival at Tulsa in 2005, the Golden Hurricane have won 34 Conference USA championships. In addition, Tulsa made a $25 million renovation to the football stadium and spent almost $10 million in construction of the Case Athletic Complex.
Cunningham is a Notre Dame graduate with a master's degree in business administration. He spent 15 years working in various roles at his alma mater before serving three years as athletic director at Ball State and then six years at Tulsa.
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